feeding issues L1A1

[Ex Crab]

I own an L1A1 as issued and it eats anything and everything in 7.62*, however it appears to prefer German military ammo. I know other club members who own either L1A1s or the FAL, none of them have feed problems. Ejection problems can almost always be solved by altering the gas setting. If I remember rightly we were instructed to change the setting by 2 numbers. I leave mine on 5 all the time.

As has already been said, if your SUIT works and doesn't fall off (like mine does) then you really have hit the jackpot.

* means British RG ammo, Prvi Partizan, Lake City, some gash Portuguese stuff, German military ammo plus a selection of reloads.

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[mrclark303]

I own an L1A1 as issued and it eats anything and everything in 7.62*, however it appears to prefer German military ammo. I know other club members who own either L1A1s or the FAL, none of them have feed problems. Ejection problems can almost always be solved by altering the gas setting. If I remember rightly we were instructed to change the setting by 2 numbers. I leave mine on 5 all the time.

As has already been said, if your SUIT works and doesn't fall off (like mine does) then you really have hit the jackpot.

* means British RG ammo, Prvi Partizan, Lake City, some gash Portuguese stuff, German military ammo plus a selection of reloads.

Our UK spec Straight pulls like different brands, both of mine enjoy a healthy full grain diet of NATO spec GGG, giving great extraction and accurate groups, but Partizan (in fact all thin wall civvy stuff) is terrible in mine, that said ex German surp MEN ammo is also terrible!

Is the MEN stuff thin cased I wonder, I would have thought that all NATO ammo was of a similar spec, or is that not correct??